12-29-2023, 08:47 AM
Lunatique: Good points on the portrait. I would have done better to go closer to the actual face the AI 'suggested', but at the time, I just... didn't like the look of that face. Haha.
Regarding the public reception of AI, it seems like there are some holdout places where people will defend artists. I have had the general impression that it's not an important issue to people, unfortunately. That's one reason I made a hard switch to working on a game project. Not just that AI can create images that people are satisfied with, but that a huge crowd of people never respected art or artists.
In some way, there's a social aspect to this, too. I know two people who were artists who switched over to making games, and I can see it working for them. One of them released a visual novel and got way more traction with that than he did with just his art. Now his art is a part of something, so people care about it. Generally, people don't care about art/artists/artistic skill, they care about the stuff it's a part of -- movies, comics, games. I guess it's obvious in hindsight.
Started to model out the common enemy dude. This guy isn't textured yet, so pardon the all-blackness. I've also changed things a bit from the concept.
You guys were right that beefing up the mutant arms looks better. I'm also trying to use these reflective black eyes, because they're spooky, and because using different eye colors might help to give different enemies flavor, at some later point.
I considered giving him individual teeth and all that, but I'm worried about introducing too many polys. This guy will be getting spammed all over the place. So my idea is to paint some gnarly gross stuff for his mouth, like it's been sealed off by the evil red goop. If that still looks bad later, I'll try adding some teeth here and there. I also tested painting alpha masks on the clothing, which is fortunately pretty easy. I've got one battery in his noggin, and I'll duplicate that after texturing it.
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Regarding the public reception of AI, it seems like there are some holdout places where people will defend artists. I have had the general impression that it's not an important issue to people, unfortunately. That's one reason I made a hard switch to working on a game project. Not just that AI can create images that people are satisfied with, but that a huge crowd of people never respected art or artists.
In some way, there's a social aspect to this, too. I know two people who were artists who switched over to making games, and I can see it working for them. One of them released a visual novel and got way more traction with that than he did with just his art. Now his art is a part of something, so people care about it. Generally, people don't care about art/artists/artistic skill, they care about the stuff it's a part of -- movies, comics, games. I guess it's obvious in hindsight.
Started to model out the common enemy dude. This guy isn't textured yet, so pardon the all-blackness. I've also changed things a bit from the concept.
You guys were right that beefing up the mutant arms looks better. I'm also trying to use these reflective black eyes, because they're spooky, and because using different eye colors might help to give different enemies flavor, at some later point.
I considered giving him individual teeth and all that, but I'm worried about introducing too many polys. This guy will be getting spammed all over the place. So my idea is to paint some gnarly gross stuff for his mouth, like it's been sealed off by the evil red goop. If that still looks bad later, I'll try adding some teeth here and there. I also tested painting alpha masks on the clothing, which is fortunately pretty easy. I've got one battery in his noggin, and I'll duplicate that after texturing it.